[racket] Does Racket GUI scale?

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:59:31 +0400, Dmitry Pavlov wrote:
> > Interesting, thanks! You are right -- Windows does the scrolling
> > smoothly with 1000 buttons. As a separate issue: look what
> > happened when I raised the number to 1500:
> 
> It looks like drawing is cut off at 32767 pixels (= largest positive
> value of a 16-bit signed integer). I think I looked into this before
> and concluded that it's a limitation of Win32 controls, but I don't
> recall how hard I tried to fix it.

I hit this limit in a gtk program a few years ago.
It also exists on the Amiga.
It's a rather common restriction in GUI toolkits.

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